skyacht personal blimp

PEOPLE. PRESS. CONTACT. The Airship Alberto on a recent flight -- July 14, 2007. 205,000 cubic foot hot air blimp. with a unique "double-umbrella" envelope structure. Welcome! To browse our site, please click the menu choices along the left side of the page. You'll find a great deal of information about why this aircraft is unique (e.g.

Since 2002 Skyacht Aircraft, Inc. has been developing a new type of aircraft called the Personal Blimp. The goal of this work has been to create an aircraft capable of quiet, steerable, sustained, and affordable flight. When the first Personal Blimp, named the Airship Alberto, made its first flight on October 27, 2006, it became the first and only aircraft to meet this seemingly ...

This video, from http://www.personalblimp.com/ , shows the first 360 degree turn made by the Skyacht Personal Blimp during its first series of flight tests o...

development of the Personal Blimp thermal airship in 2002. The Personal Blimp is a semi-rigid, foldable airship that uses hot air produced by propane burners for lift and a vectoring engine-driven propeller in the tail for propulsion. First flight of the two-person Personal Blimp #1, "Airship Alberto," was on 27 October 2006. The Skyacht ...

Finally: An affordable personal blimp. Skyacht Aircraft's steerable hot-air blimp should retail for less than $200,000. Erica Ogg. Dec. 13, 2006 1:54 p.m. PT. It could be the 21st-century version ...

Foldable Hull Structure. One of the unique features of the Skyacht Personal Blimp is the use of a foldable hull structure. (We liked the idea so much that we've got for a patent on it.) The Personal Blimp hull structure has three main components: 1) the fabric envelope, 2) a set of flexible ribs embedded within the fabric, and 3) a tensioning ...

December 12, 2006 Skyacht Aircraft has created a whisper quiet, steerable, Personal Blimp capable of sustained and affordable flight. Under development for four years, the first Personal Blimp ...

Skyacht Aircraft, Inc., located in Amherst, Massachusetts, started development of the Personal Blimp thermal airship in 2002. The Personal Blimp is a semi-rigid, foldable airship that uses hot air produced by propane burners for lift and a vectoring engine-driven propeller in the tail for propulsion.

One of the unique features of the Skyacht Personal Blimp is the use of a foldable hull structure. (We liked the idea so much that we've got for a patent on it.) The Personal Blimp hull structure has three main components: 1) the fabric envelope, 2) a set of flexible ribs embedded within the fabric, and 3) a tensioning line that runs along the ...

A recent news story produced by the Boston Globe on Alberto the Skyacht Personal Blimp. Produced by Thushan Amarasiriwardena. Copyright 2007 Boston Globe/La...

The non-rigid GEFA-Flug four-seat AS-105GD/4 and six-seat AS-105GD/6, and the semi-rigid, two-seat Skyacht Personal Blimp are examples of current thermal airships that use propane burners to produce the hot air for lift. Pitch can be controlled with fore and aft burners. There are no ballonets.

The Personal Blimp is a hot air balloon that can be maneuvered about in nearly perfect quiet. Passengers in a Personal Blimp have a serene experience of flight unavailable in any other type of aircraft. Most other ways of flying require either loud machinery or constant attention to ride the air currents. A blimp with quiet electrical motors ...

That's the thinking behind the design of the craft called the Skyacht Personal Blimp. I started out looking for an aircraft that does 3 things: 1) doesn't make a lot of noise. 2) lets me control where I'm going. 3) stays in the air without requiring continuous intense effort. No existing aircraft fits that bill.

Skyacht Personal Blimp - another type of thermal airship. The first public flight of a hot air airship was made by Don Cameron (UK) in a Cameron D-96 at the Icicle Meet in January 1973. The aircraft took 3 years to develop. Envelope structures. Most thermal airships are non-rigid. Some are pressurized.

Personal Blimp Uses Hot Air & Electric Motor. December 31, 2006 by Dan Johnson Leave a Comment. Using no helium, Skyacht's "Personal Blimp" is "a lighter-than-air foldable airship" that can manuever in ways to make it a potential working aircraft. See it fly in a short video that demonstrates it's ability to turn tightly.

In a peaceful, wooded haven outside Amherst, Mass., Dan Nachbar decided to build a revolutionary prototype: the SkYacht, a "personal" hot-air balloon that could turn on a dime. It's hard to keep something as big as this 205,000 cubic foot blimp under wraps, but Dan worked quietly and a few days ago let the world see his high-flying masterpiece.

Skyacht Inc. is a little company formed in 2002 to create a new type of aircraft they call a "personal blimp." It's actually a motorized hot air balloon featuring a nylon fabric envelope over an aluminum and steel frame. The Skyacht measures an impressive 105 ft in length and 70 ft in diameter, with an open-air cockpit that seats two.

The Skyacht design avoids these structural pitfalls by using a rigid, but folding, ribbed envelope (body) ... Personal Blimp Technology Demonstrator Length 102 feet Diameter 70 feet Envelope Volume 205,000 cubic feet Seats 2 Max Lift 4,100 lbs. Horsepower 24 Cruise Speed 12 MPH (projected)

Unlike traditional blimps, the Skyacht simply uses hot air instead of helium, and employs a "virtually silent" motor for propulsion. The use of hot air makes the Skyacht cheaper to operate than ...

The Skyacht Personal Blimp brings affordable, albeit slow, air travel within reach of everyone. Well everyone that likes floating around underneath a very bulbous hot air balloon thing painted like a demented goldfish. Mind you, one nice feature is the fact that it can be deflated and stored in a cupboard. A large cupboard. [Via Metafilter] The Personal Blimp uses hot air (rather than Helium ...

Inflation Sequence(July/August, 2006) Unlike a conventional helium-based airship, the Personal Blimp is deflated and covered when on the ground. So it doesn't require a hangar, leak helium, or otherwise "bleed cash" between flights. Below is a series of pictures that outlines the inflation process. Between flights the airship is usually stored ...

Skyacht Personal Blimp GEFA-Flug AS-105GD Hybrid thermal-gas (Rozier) airships. This buoyancy control concept was developed and applied in the 1700s in hybrid balloons designed by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier. Such "Rozier" balloons have separate chambers for a non-heated lift gas (hydrogen or helium) and a heated lift gas (air).

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